This is an undated file photo of a shadowy shape that some people say is a photo of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland.

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DNA Samples From Loch Ness Lead to One 'Plausible' Theory

Newser — Arden Dier

Scientists failed to find Nessie in a study of Scotland's Loch Ness—but they did come up with a possible explanation for more than 1,000 reported sightings of the mythical monster, including 14 this year, per the Mirror.

Unfortunately, we don't yet know the details. The findings, to be announced Aug. 29, come after an international team sequenced environmental DNA from 250 water samples, per the New Zealand Herald.

The BBC reports "about 500 million sequences ... have now been analyzed against existing databases" in an effort to catalog all animal and plant life within Loch Ness.

"There are around four main explanations about what has been seen" and "our research essentially discounts most of those theories," says geneticist Neil Gemmell of New Zealand's University of Otago.